Stairmaster | Stepmaster

Walking, climbing, and pivoting with a smartphone at my hip, steering the panorama engine as I negotiate balance, direction, and pace. Not to freeze a moment. To elongate it, stretch it out. To make it last. Figures stagger and smear into echoes, stair rails bend, shadows double back, and my own trace shadows anchor the scene. Each piece is a brief performance, part street photography, part painting in time. Prolongance insists on presence.

Crossing 42nd Street

Prolongance stands in stark contrast to earlier ‘art of movement’ works by artists like Eadweard Muybridge, Marcel Duchamp, Gjon Mili, the Futurists, and even Gerhard Richter. While these predecessors captured movement from a single, stationary vantage point, Prolongance disrupts this approach by using a camera in motion. Focused downward, the camera aggregates the sequence of spaces I move through, creating a continuous narrative that reconfigures both time and space.

In the images of spiral staircases, stairwells, and escalators, Prolongance blends frames together, obliterating the natural curvature of a spiral staircase and rendering it as a linear composition. In angular stairwells and multi-floor escalators, this process opens up strange, liminal spaces, where transitions between 90° or 180° turns become warped and fragmented, yet still cohesive.